On the writing of the insane : with illustrations

by: Bacon, G. Mackenzie

Publication date: 1870

Topics: Mental illness in literature, Mental illness, Mentally ill, Penmanship, Mental Disorders, Literature, Handwriting

Publisher: London : John Churchill and Sons

Collection: medicalheritagelibrary; francisacountwaylibrary; americana

Digitizing sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

Contributor: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine

Language: English

24 p. : 23 cm

Addeddate: 2010-11-04 14:36:34

Bookplateleaf: 0007

Call number: 005810408

Camera: Canon 5D

External-identifier: urn:oclc:record:1050241374

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Identifier: onwritingofinsan00baco

Identifier-ark: ark:/13960/t9c54d62j

Ocr: ABBYY FineReader 8.0

Openlibrary_edition: OL24456287M

Openlibrary_work: OL15492949W

Page-progression: lr

Full catalog record: MARCXML

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Reviewer: microcosme - - January 2, 2018
Subject: Interesting

In this short book the author describes how the writing of asylum patients reflects the state of their sanity. He includes some amusing letters from patients and their relatives along with facsimiles of handwriting (most of it unintelligible). I liked the author's wry writing style.

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